#theater director

[nice1cream]

My headcanon for possible hypothetical stage production of Epic is that whoever plays Telemachus also plays young Odysseus in WOTM while old Odysseus looks at the scene from the side. Hear me out.

Open arms ends with tired Odysseus sitting on a log and Polites joining him for the final, soft "greet the world with open arms, greet the world with open arms". After Polites ends the song, everything freezes and the light changes. Odysseus gets pulled into quickthought by Athena.

He stands up and the log with Polites goes offstage (prolly a turnrable or smth). At this point Athena is only a voice. She enters the stage after "Let me remind you" and right before "goddess of wisdom, master of war" *cue applause*. Odysseus moves away to the side of the stage and watches.

As Athena sings her verse, young Odysseus (a.k.a. the actor for Telemachus) play-fights with his friends in the back of the stage. When Athena sings about the boar, they immitate young Ody defeating the boar (prolly one actor holding a big prop of a boar head).

Then young Ody runs to the center of the stage for the "Show yourself" part, then him and Athena have this whole duet.

Now present Odysseus takes a few steps towards the center, where young Ody and Athena have their little training choreography.

The song ends with Ody winning against Athena in practice and Athena singing "I still intend to make sure you don't fall behind" while young Ody listens to her carefully. When she sings "You are a warrior of the mind", young Ody runs offstage, right past the present Odysseus and Athena sings "Don't disappoint me" to the present Odysseus!

Athena disappears, Polites approaches Odysseus and they return to the ship.

Thank you *drops mic*

[evershiftingmuse]

open rp - {Morgan LeFay} - open to anyone

"Let me get this straight, you came all this way to audition without reading anything about what you're auditioning for?" Morgan was confused and a little aggravated by the individual's arrival. All she ever asked was for anyone to come to prepare one line of the play, one simple part to play for a brief moment. This person had prepared nothing.

"This isn't a musical, it's not a movie, and we're not looking for anyone based off their appearance. It's about talent, but being prepared upon arrival doesn't make me feel as if you have what we need."

[frwalkwithme]

I saw Longlegs with my brothers a few days ago and this was my immediate conclusion

[joshoconnaissance]

GILLIAN ANDERSON as MEREDITH PLAYING BY HEART (1998) dir. Willard Carroll

[lollytea]

✨️Artists✨️

[bad-time-theater-au]

| "Well well well this is a surprise! Thank you all for enjoying the show so much, we appreciate you all!" |

<| "Thank you :3" |>

[asthedeathoflight]

Maybe this is because im a professional theater artist but i do think its really funny that daniel acts like armand being the director of the trial is such a slam dunk and means he was responsible for the whole thing. Girl director is just a job. Directors aren't dictators they're just in charge of the visual language of the piece. If theyre gonna kill his boyfriend on his stage hes gonna make sure the blocking isnt ass. Hes a professional.

[thematicparallel]

so true that max is the only main character to step off the stage & see where the lights hit & so she is able to make a life for herself in the darkness like she's almost watching all these giants fall & get killed during the play & max opted out of becoming one so she just lets the audience see her when necessary. character of all time woman of all time!!!!!

[tothechaos]

ever since i started doing card tricks people in my life have had. uh. mixed reactions. my mom gets annoyed because she cant figure them out, one of my friends literally walked away from me calling me a freak, and another saw me holding a deck of cards and grinning as he came out of the back room at work and just went "oh god" with a look of abject despair on his face. but i will never stop. because it makes me laugh. also if i can find drunk enough people i dont think i ever have to pay for drinks at a bar again

[thysilus]

overheard set conversation

[evershiftingmuse]

open rp - {Morgan Lefay} {m, f or other}

"It works, it works but it doesn't flow as it was written..." This wasn't the first time Morgan had called one of her actors away from the stage. It was getting more and more obvious the problem wasn't with the writing but with the presentation. "You need to emphasize how the character feels." She didn't care if it was by the words or by the performance. Something had to be done about the lack of drive.

"If we can't get this to work I will have to push you back and let someone else take over."

[dandeyrain]

i've been rotating the "this doesn't make any sense!" response to boy and the heron in my head and i wonder how much of it comes down to like...the kind of audience that engages with ghibli movies vs the kind of audience that mostly only engages with weird art movies vs the kind of audience that only really engages with blockbusters and marvel movies, and the overlap of those groups in the theater.

because, like, the boy and the heron is far and away more straightforward, from a plot perspective, than a lot of other Weird Extremely Personal Art Movies i've seen and love, but it IS a Weird Extremely Personal Art Movie even so. usually the only people seeing Weird Extremely Personal Art Movies, especially in theaters, are people who like that and expect that and have seen those types of films before and are therefore capable of engaging with them even when things aren't as clear as they'd be in an average blockbuster flick. like, nobody who only cares about Cinema to the extent of marvel movies and MAYBE john wick is going to see beau is afraid, and if they did they wouldn't have the tools to engage with such a dream-logicy movie. it would just be a weird thing that doesnt make sense to them, at least until they worked their media engagement muscles with other weird films. there's a lot of self-selection to the kind of person who usually sees these kind of movies.

while boy and the heron is weirder and more complex than a lot of other ghibli movies, as far as weird art films go it is incredibly, INCREDIBLY straightfoward. every weird plot point is explained very clearly to the audience, very little is up for interpretation from a strictly "what was the plot" point of view. boy loses mother. father remarries and moves the family. boy struggles to contend with grief. boy is pulled into a magical world by an old man who wants to use him. time is weird and fucked up in the magical world, but the movie is going to go out of it's way to highlight who's who and make it clear how the time travel works and the characters' relations to one another. the boy refuses to take over the magical world because he wants to live in the real world with the real people he loves. boy leaves the magical world having learned an important lesson about moving on. but the boy and the heron trusts its audience, doesn't handhold, and expects the audience to engage seriously and with focus to its plot and characters and stories.

a lot of people never watch movies like that! a lot of people are used to uncomplicated superhero movies and romcoms and that's it. the difference is that those people were never going to see beau is afraid, so the discussion about that movie instead comes from people who have the tools to engage with it. but because of the aesthetic-ification of ghibli, a lot of people who don't Do art films but are really into the aesthetics of cute little guys and girls in pretty dresses went to this art film and were confused that it was weird and dream-like and dark and strange and requires more of its audience than just passively watching.

anyway there's nothing wrong with not having the muscles to engage with weird art films, though i do think everyone should challenge themselves with the kind of stuff they watch. there's nothing wrong with preferring simple straightforward uncomplicated plotlines. but it is really interesting seeing people talk about the movie like it's insanely weird and doesnt make any sense meanwhile me and the friends i've chatted with about who DO have experience with this kind of film all feel insane because the movie is SO clear and SO straightforward by the standards we're used to. its just a neat crossover re: the kinds of movie fans that exist

[aimsies-mctaymellburg]

Thank you iPhone Memories 😍😏

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[technicalmushrooms]

In her 2008 hit “Circus,” Britney Spears claims “There’s only two types of people in this world: those who entertain and those who observe.” However, there is a third type of person: the elusive, exhausted technician. In this essay I will